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Ilona Lay: Love Poems
Ilona Lay’s love poems explore the essence of love from different perspectives. This is also reflected in the different forms of poetic expression. The poems are complemented by short accompanying texts that serve to provide a broader context and to stimulate further reflection. Image: Wsjewolod Maximowitsch (1894 – 1914): The…
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Zacharias Mbizo: The Hidden Chamber
Dream Worlds At first glance, the language of dreams seems enigmatic to us. However, if we are willing to engage with their peculiar logic, they can help us to see things more clearly. This is all the more true when our dreams are a mirror of our own abysses. About…
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Anna Akhmatova and the Russian Soul
Poems against Terror Anna Akhmatova, a renowned poet before the October Revolution, became an ostracised outsider in the Bolshevik state. This is also reflected in her poems.
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Dieter Hoffmann: Charles Baudelaire’s Collection of Poetry Les Fleurs du mal (The Flowers of Evil)
An Overwiew with Newly Translated Poems Charles Baudelaire’s poetic flower garden exudes many different fragrances. The most exquisite of them enable us to achieve what Baudelaire regarded as the most noble goal of his poetry: they allow us to „catch a glimpse of paradise“. – A poetic bouquet of flowers,…
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Russian Anti-War Songs
On the second anniversary of the invasion of Ukraine, Russian anti-war songs can serve as proof of something that today’s Kremlin rulers would probably condemn as „extremist“: that in Russia, too, there are people who detest war. In Russia, too, there is a strong tradition of anti-militarist thinking and poetry.…
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Ilona Lay: October in the mountains. Meditations on happiness
What is happiness? Each person will give a different answer to this question. So there are no universally valid answers in this cycle of poems either. Instead, the cycle revolves around the essence of happiness in 17 meditations, which create a poetic monument to single moments of happiness. PDF Image:…
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